positions will show how well educated women of the Mediterranean were during the Ancient Period.
             The title of God's wife of Amon can be dated as far back as the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt but was still used throughout the third Intermediate and Late Periods (747 B.C.-332B.C.). According to Barbara Lesko, Pharaohs during the early Dynasties in this period developed this role out of need for representation in South Egypt. Women who carried this title (usually the Pharaohs daughter) held a chief role as a priestess in the national cult center (Lesko, 12). During the Twenty- first to the Twenty-third Dynasties, the main function for these women to represent the pharaohs' interests in south Egypt. God's Wife of Amon was to carry out the official religious functions that were usually reserved for the king (13). Evidence of these women's great ability to fulfill their title, is apparent in the fact that they were able to maintain their presence as the chief sacerdotal authority through a civil war, an invasion, an several attacks (14). Obviously no woman could successfully carry out this role without an education. Knowledge in how to run a country or community was necessary.
             The title of Prophetess was give to women in the Montanus movement (movement in which women held high office in the church). One source (the Didache) groups prophetesses groups with apostles and teachers (Witherington, 192). Prophetesses were thought to be blessed with the revelations of "the Spirit", and they also had the power to baptize (Rossi, 76). This title was only given to those who carried great wisdom because other great leaders looked to them for advice, they were "interpreters of a divine will" (Torjesen, 28). In order to be considered true prophetesses, these women had to prove themselves. They were constantly being observed for any signs of false prophecy. If a prophet asked for food or money, or did not practice what he or she taught, then that was s...